Keyboard strokes not "keeping up"

Hello,
My wife's iBook 1.2GHz is about 2.5 years old and has experienced few problems so far. However, she is noticing now that when she is typing, it takes awhile for the key strokes to be accepted. So for instance she will type a sentence, but it will only input on the screen after a few seconds. Is there any way to fix this? I have tried going into universal access and changing the "Acceptance Delay" which she says might have done some good, but I'm wondering if anyone has any other suggestions (resent parameter RAM or something like that???)
Thanks

makj1974, Welcome to the discussion area!
Usually this happens when another application or task is using most of the CPU cycles. Run Activity Monitor (in /Applications/Utilities) and see if there is a process/application which is hogging the CPU.
Other possibilities are that the application needs more RAM and even possibly a very full hard drive.
How much RAM is installed in the iBook?
How much free space is on the iBook's hard drive?

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